Kiwanis Club of Leesburg, Virginia

70th Annual Leesburg Kiwanis Halloween Parade

Our club looks forward to seeing excited participants and visitors as we celebrate this signature community event on Wednesday, October 31st. The parade starts at 6:30pm this year, so please note the new time. Street closure will be at 5:45pm, but that time is subject to change with Leesburg Police Department and Town of Leesburg approval. The 2025 parade had 80 groups participate with over 600 people and lasted about 90 minutes, and we hope that even more people plan to join us this fall. Please use the registration form found here 2026 Halloween Parade Registration – Kiwanis Club of Leesburg, Virginia. A PDF will also be available soon.

Out of 250 Key Clubs, Stone Bridge received the ultimate honor of 2025-2026 Key Club of the Year in Capital District Kiwanis! Therefore, we chose the Stone Bridge Key Club to act as our Grand Marshal! During the 2025-2026 school year, they had 170 members who completed 3,984 volunteer service hours and supported 128 local and international organizations. Their projects included a diaper drive, bracelet making for Bright Days, Salvation Bell ringing, Women Giving Back, and more.

Please contact us at [email protected] or 301-606-8214 with any questions.

Celebrating Our 69th Charter Anniversary Year

Leesburg Kiwanis Club began in March 1957. We celebrated our 69th Anniversary in various ways. A charter dinner social at Jasmine included current members, a former Capital District Governor, Key Club and division 2 K-Family members, and partners in the LOCO community. We presented Samantha from Stone Bridge H.S. with a scholarship as our nominee for the Teenager-of-the-Year Scholarship.

We began the month with three members attending the Capital District Midyear Conference in Cambridge, MD. It was a chance to reunite with K-Family members to celebrate accomplishments and learn more about Kiwanis opportunities. We also had time to form new relationships with other participants to see if there may be potential service projects to support together.

Our club had fun at the annual Spring Bling Craft Show with Riverside H.S. Key Club students. We sold refreshments to visitors and vendors at Ida Lee Rec Center. If volunteers had free time, we began packing treat bags with eggs, candy, stickers, and fake tattoos. The bags also had cards decorated with spring messages to improve spirits at Loudoun Hunger Relief. Park View H.S. and Tuscarora H.S. Key Clubs also joined our club in making around 300 treat bags for Loudoun Hunger Relief. Some members took time out of their school day or spring break to honor their commitment to service.

Congratulations to the return of Heritage H.S. Key Club, a club after COVID-19! It has officially been reactivated as a club in the end of March. We have enjoyed interacting with your members for the Head Start and STEP Literacy Project and look forward to strengthening our relationship in the future. Our club supports 12 Key Clubs with over 1,200 members. Our Key Clubs volunteered to raise the spirits of teachers, schools, janitors, and friends through thank you cards or meals provided. They designed bracelets for ill children or kids at risk.

The third part of a book donation for 400 children at LCPS Head Start and STEP programs was a success in June. Teachers and staff members also received additional book donations for their classrooms. Key Clubbers at Broad Run, Heritage, Rock Ridge, Tuscarora, and Woodbridge high schools helped decorate cards with positive messages for the PreK kids. Other Key Clubs at Briar Woods, Riverside, Stone Bridge, and Potomac Falls also created cards. Then some students met to put labels on the books at Rust Library. Thank you to Rust Library for letting us use your space for service projects.

Our club members continue supplementing little libraries in the Stork Project throughout LOCO. The Stork Project started during COVID-19 with 50+ little library sites, and that number has hit 70+ in 2026. Please let us know if a little library near you needs books. Contact us at [email protected]. We also had several guest volunteers from club friends and Riverside Key Club sort and hang up clothes on a Saturday morning at Women Giving Back.

At Capital District Key Club Convention in March, Key Clubbers from Stone Bridge and their faculty and Kiwanis advisors learned that Stone Bridge, Riverside, Tuscarora, and Independence received awards for positions like distinguished officers, contest entries, and more. Two LOCO Key Clubbers also received scholarships from the Capital District Kiwanis Foundation; congrats to Stone Bridge and Riverside. Out of 250 Key Clubs, Stone Bridge received the ultimate honor of 2025-2026 Key Club of the Year in Capital District Kiwanis!

Our Kiwanis club looks to continue growing and offering our services to the LOCO community and beyond. Please contact us to learn more about volunteering, joining our club, and providing support for 1 child, one community at a time.

About Us

Serving the broader Loudoun County region, our club was founded by local business leaders in March 1957. Our organization is full of passionate volunteers including business professionals, young professionals, government workers, parents, and retirees. There is no age limit when it comes to giving back to your community! Please send a message if you would like to attend and learn more about our club and what we do. We welcome visitors at all of our meetings. For an invitation or to RSVP, please email the club at [email protected].

What We Do

We are best known for sponsoring the annual Halloween parade held in Leesburg since 1957. Every year we bring the town of Leesburg together on Halloween for a parade full of marching band performances, color guard, local community groups, the giant pumpkin, and lots of candy for the kids.

We sponsor Key Clubs in 12 Loudoun County high schools with over 1,200 students in all. Students run these service leadership programs under faculty supervision, providing much needed community service by sponsoring projects that benefit their schools and the community at large, while receiving valuable leadership training and experience.

Community service is at the heart of Kiwanis—we truly serve the children of the world, beginning in Loudoun County. In our decades of service, we have supported many different organizations. Our club most recently supported the Town of Leesburg’s Flower and Garden Show, Women Giving Back, Loudoun Hunger Relief, Mobile Hope, Loudoun Education Foundation’s Fueled program (food packing), The Courage Closet and Walk for Water 5Ks, and a variety of youth projects.

Our reading initiative to help underserved children in the county has taken multiple routes to provide books and reading strategies for kids and their families. We have passed out over 2,000 books to kids at Head Start/STEP, National Night Out, and Little Free Libraries throughout Loudoun County. We believe every child has the right to enjoy age-appropriate books of their own.

What is Kiwanis International?

We are a service organization that helps kids in our local communities and around the world. Internationally as a whole, Kiwanis members stage approximately 150,000 service projects and raise nearly $100M every year for communities, families, and service projects. Here is a quick video that explains what Kiwanis is.

Interested in learning more? Check out Kiwanis International or please contact us directly for more information and to join our Kiwanis club.

Meetings

We hold a Club Social at 7:00 pm on the 1st Monday of the month that rotates among three restaurants, Travinia, Jasmine, and IHOP. The general club hybrid meeting on the 3rd Thursday of the month is in person on the 2nd Floor at Wegman’s and on Zoom at 7:00 pm. Please note that the schedule may change due to service projects or holidays. Check our club calendar for the most up-to-date information.

Reach out to the club at [email protected] if you would like to attend as a guest.

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